Reaction Quotes

The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed. (Carl Jung)
To every action there is always opposed an equal reaction. View quote
Isaac Newton
An abnormal reaction to an abnormal situation is normal behavior. View quote
Viktor Frankl
The world in general doesn't know what to make of originality; it is startled out of its comfortable habits of thought, and its first reaction is one of anger. View quote
W. Somerset Maugham
It is funny that men who are supposed to be scientific cannot get themselves to realise the basic principle of physics, that action and reaction are equal and opposite, that when you persecute people you always rouse them to be strong and stronger. View quote
Gertrude Stein
Horror is the natural reaction to the last 5,000 years of history. View quote
Robert Anton Wilson
What a man calls his "conscience" is merely the mental action that follows a sentimental reaction after too much wine or love. View quote
Helen Rowland
Postmodernism was a reaction to modernism. Where modernism was about objectivity, postmodernism was about subjectivity. Where modernism sought a singular truth, postmodernism sought the multiplicity of truths. View quote
Miguel Syjuco
A growing awareness of the depth of popular attachment to the family has led some liberals to concede that family is not just a buzzword for reaction. View quote
Christopher Lasch
Religion ... is a mans total reaction upon life. View quote
William James
Attack is the reaction. I never think I have hit hard unless it rebounds. (Samuel Johnson)
Average people didn't analyze what they thought: they thought they thought, and half of it was gut reaction. View quote
C. J. Cherryh
The point of terrorism is to cause terror, sometimes to further a political goal and sometimes out of sheer hatred. The people terrorists kill are not the targets; they are collateral damage. And blowing up planes, trains, markets or buses is not the goal; those are just tactics. The real targets of terrorism are the rest of us: the billions of us who are not killed but are terrorized because of the killing. The real point of terrorism is not the act itself, but our reaction to the act. And we're doing exactly what the terrorists want. View quote
Bruce Schneier
Every revolutionary idea seems to evoke three stages of reaction. They may be summed up by the phrases: 1- It's completely impossible. 2- It's possible, but it's not worth doing. 3- I said it was a good idea all along. View quote
Arthur C. Clarke
My pen and paper cause a chain reaction, to get your brain relaxing. View quote
Eminem
Politics follows the lines of physics: every action creates an equal and opposite reaction. View quote
John Avlon
Conscience is the internal perception of the reaction of a particular wish operating within us. View quote
Sigmund Freud
To every action there is always opposed an equal reaction, or, the mutual actions of two bodies upon each other are always equal, and directed to contrary parts. View quote
Isaac Newton
The years of the economic depression have been years of political reaction, and that is why the economic crisis has generated a world peace crisis. View quote
Arthur Henderson
There is no right reaction. There is only your reaction. View quote
Jack Canfield
There's always a reaction based on fear. People assume if you're criticizing a decision to go to war, then you're saying something against the soldiers-which is not the case. (Ed Harris)
The point of departure of the process to which we wish to contribute is the fact that war is the natural reaction of human nature in the savage state, while peace is the result of acquired characteristics. View quote
Elihu Root
What is the natural reaction when told you have a hopeless mental illness? That diagnosis does you in; that, and the humiliation of being there. I mean, the indignity you're subjected to. My God. View quote
Kate Millett
I always trust my gut reaction; it's always right. View quote
Kiana Tom
I was just then going through a healthy reaction from the orthodoxy of my youth; religion had become for me not so much a possession as an obsession, which I was trying to throw off, and this iconoclastic tale of an imaginary tribe was the result. View quote
Laurence Housman